The distinctly stunning California outpost that is Monterey has been in the news,
and making cultural history, in various ways this year. Over the summer, the 50th
anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival...

I first met philosopher Cornel Ronald West when he was speaking at an event
focusing on moral courage at New York University in 2013. It was there that I
discovered we both had a sacred and devotional...

At just thirty seven years of age it's hard to believe that Piotr Turkiewicz has been
pulling the strings of Jazztopad for almost a decade already. The festival, staged
each November in the Polish city of...

Originality is a hard concept to pin down, but in music, it is a matter of having your
own sound. The idea of a singular signature has been a part of the narrative of jazz
for a long time, and it forms the basis of...

Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz club in his hometown of Baltimore, MD to his own music... read more